Caroline Dodds Pennock

I didn't come out until I was 43.

No one I work with, are friends with or any of my family care that I am trans.

What this government is doing is horrific. But not being "you" is no way to live. And you must live. If only so you're living breathing "fuck you" to these bastards.

Jolyon Maugham KC @jolyon.goodlawproject.org The NHS has now stopped all medication - puberty blockers and hormones - for trans minors. For most, unless they get drugs from other sources, this means a lifetime, in an increasingly violent and transphobic society, unable to pass. Under Wes Streeting NHS policy is harm and death for trans people. Jolyon Maugham KC @jolyon.goodlawpro... • 16h Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones. Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

Jolyon is literally doing the lords work with GLP so this isn’t a call out of him at all as in individual.

I really should say, I’m not keen on this messaging

1. It’s not true that “most” trans people don’t pass if they do so over 18, in fact it couldn’t be further from it

This is heartbreaking.

There’s a guy on TikTok who joked repeatedly about hating the fact cottage cheese is in every ‘healthy’ recipe. Now, any video with cottage cheese in, he gets a billion notifications.

a white rabbit with pink ears is standing on a table with its mouth open . ALT: a white rabbit with pink ears is standing on a table with its mouth open .

Watching BBC2 and the claim that Joan Jett and Anita Baker are ‘One Hit Wonders on the BBC’ is quite something.

Aaaah. Watched a lot of that before giving up because it was so relentless. No, I don’t wish to empathise with a mass-murdering rapist. No, not even then.

Ha - tempting!

TWD?

God yes. The business with the Russians was so redundant! And I’m not sure anyone cared about the love triangle…

There were so many things I enjoyed about the earlier series, but it feels like they overcomplicated it. It wasn’t supposed to be high art - just really good telly. And I feel like they forgot that a bit. But that’s just me.

I haven’t finished the finale yet (see above!) but imo the pacing in this series has been awful. It’s taken forever to pick up and there’ve been too many laborious subplots (also in the previous series). And I say this as someone who prefers series in general and even reads fanfic at times…

The conclusion of Stranger Things may be perfectly good (we’ve only just started it) but two hours eight minutes isn’t an ‘episode’. That’s a movie, and not even a short movie. I’m tired of streaming as an excuse for lazy film-making.

So good!

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Funnily enough, the Navajo are one of the largest and best ‘recognised’ (in official terms) nations, but there are many people/nations who simply can’t get recognition for various reasons.

Hi Emmy! It's a really good question! I'm glad to say that the excellent Mexicolore has a webpage explaining Aztec beliefs about eclipses :-) www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/aztec...

This is a topic I don’t tend to speak on, but we all know that it’s problematic/colonising/racist to insist that individuals and groups can only be Indigenous if they’re ‘officially’ recognised by the settler-colonial state, right?

Sigh. It's all so sad and enraging.

I don’t want to vague-post, but some people are spending a lot of energy, and draining a lot of other people’s energy, by engaging in lateral attacks when there are very real threats all around.

This is a topic I don’t tend to speak on, but we all know that it’s problematic/colonising/racist to insist that individuals and groups can only be Indigenous if they’re ‘officially’ recognised by the settler-colonial state, right?

I am the third kind: historians who dream about reading and writing because they don’t have time to do either.

Are they bollocks. The drop in children attending private schools is only 0.6% when adjusted against total student population and the trend has been downwards for a decade. This is just PR for the independent sector.

Picture of Zack Polanski holding a board that says: Will you sign the letter? Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community Nion Women logo notinourname.org.uk

Thank you to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for your clear support for the trans community. In a political climate where too many are stepping back, visible allyship from political leaders matters.

We were proud to meet Zack at launch of the Trans Lives Report by @transactualuk.bsky.social

One death is too many, but this feels like a lot in such a short time.

Bring back shame.

YIKES.

Daphne is slightly more engaged with the world this morning than Rosie, but she has no plans to get off the bed any time soon

A wise and fluffy cat.